Cappe, Catharine. Memoirs of the Life of the late Mrs. Catharine Cappe. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.
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Catharine Cappe
Standard Name: Cappe, Catharine
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| Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as... |
Timeline
About 1765: Catharine Cappeimg: move in unlikely event...
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About 1765
Catharine Cappe
opened one of the earliest recorded Sunday schools, at Catterick in Yorkshire.
1769: Hannah Ballimg: move in unlikely event of...
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1769
Hannah Ball
opened an early Methodist
Sunday school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Feminist Companion Archive.
July 1780: Robert Raikes opened his first Sunday sc...
National or international item
July 1780
Robert Raikes
opened his first Sunday school.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Laqueur, Thomas. Religion and Respectability. Yale University Press, 1976.
21-6
This inaccuracy persists although the Dictionary of National Biography specifically says Raikes's school was not the first.
By October 1805: Catharine Cappe published Observations on...
Women writers item
By October 1805
Catharine Cappe
published Observations on Charity Schools, a hard-hitting critique of the existing situation.
Sales, Roger. “The Maid and the Minister’s Wife: Literary Philanthropy in Regency York”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 127-41.
131n16, 129, 130
By June 1806: Poems Written on Different Occasions by the...
Women writers item
By June 1806
Poems Written on Different Occasions by the domestic servant Charlotte Richardson
were selected, edited, and published with some account of the author by the middle-class activist and social reformer Catharine Cappe
.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 8 (1806): 217
By late 1813: The York County Hospital relented and allowed...
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By late 1813
The York County Hospital
relented and allowed lady visitors access to its patients.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
141
1 April 1819: The Peace Society (founded in 1816) began...
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1 April 1819
The Peace Society
(founded in 1816) began publishing a periodical, The Herald of Peace.
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38. 23 and n1, 31, 35n5
Texts
Cappe, Catharine. Memoirs of the Life of the late Mrs. Catharine Cappe. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.